SMN reports: ROLLING STONES guitarist Keith
Richards has been taken to hospital in New Zealand after injuring himself
while on holiday in Fiji.

A band spokeswoman said Richards had suffered
a "mild concussion" and was taken to hospital as a precaution.

Media reports in Australia and New Zealand
said Richards had hurt his head when he fell out of a palm tree.["thee
ol' bones ain't what they used ta be sunny...' no comment on why he was
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Sleaze Roxx reports: Slash has filed for divorce
from his second wife, Perla.

The couple filed for divorce in Los Angeles
on Thursday, April 27.

Slash met Perla after the divorce of his
first wife Renee in 1997. The couple became engaged in 2000 and married
in Maui later that year. The couple had their first child, London Hudson,
in 2002 and then along came Cash Anthony Hudson in 2004. [see full story
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Contact Music reports: JACK OSBOURNE has been
offered a record-breaking $437,500 (GBP250,000) contract to star in forthcoming
British reality TV series CELEBRITY LOVE ISLAND. Producers are desperate
to bag the 20-year-old son of SHARON and OZZY OSBOURNE in a bid to raise
the profile of the second series - after last year's (05) episodes, which
featured only minor British celebrities, flopped. [he's a big star? see
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antiMusic reports: Vh1 kicks off their special
Metal Month with the '40 Greatest Metal Songs of All Time' tonight at 11:00
PM EST and we are sure to see heavy discussion on the metal boards across
the web shortly after the first installment airs. Especially when you have
the inventors of the genre (Black Sabbath) a few places behind Korn. These
lists are subjective and you'll never come up with a list everyone will
be happy with. So with that in mind a call was sent out to our metalhearted
brethren here at antiMusic for their 12 Greatest Metal Songs of All time
lists and we got quite different (and some surprising) results (Metallica
only received two nods in total). Over the next week we'll be posting each
list on our sister site Thrashpit.com with the top 3 picks here to compare
and contrast how different people view metal. That will start tomorrow
but for today here are the top 4 songs picked across all of the lists!

1. Slayer's "Reign in Blood" - Clear winner
with 5 nods!2. Pantera's "Cowboys From Hell" - 3 nods 3. Iron Maiden - They had two songs make
our master list with 2 nods each for "The Number of the Beast" and "the
Trooper". 4. (we have a 4 way tie for #4 with 2
nods each) In alphabetical order:

That's our Top 4, click the full story
link to check out Vh1's program page for their '40 Greatest Metal Songs
of All Time' and tune in tonight for songs 40-31 and let the debate begin!
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Contact Music reports: American heavy rocker
RONNIE JAMES DIO is set to embark on an acting career after agreeing to
play himself in the much anticipated TENACIOUS D movie, THE PICK OF DESTINY.
The DIO frontman jumped at the chance to appear in the movie when he learned
he'd be part of a fantastic dream sequence, starring funnyman JACK BLACK.[see
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AP reports: Rock bands Cheap Trick and The
Allman Brothers Band are suing Sony Music, claiming they are being shortchanged
on royalties for songs downloaded legally over the Internet.

The suit, filed at a federal court in Manhattan,
claims Sony has failed to live up to a contract requiring that it pay its
musicians half of the net revenue it receives from licensing songs to download
services like iTunes and Napster.[you can have "Free Bird" but you're gonna
have to pay for it..."see full story for more]- Click
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Gigwise reports: Pete Doherty has been arrested
by Police [on Sat], forcing Babyshambles to cancel their anti-racism show
in Trafalgar Square.

Police "busted into" the Babyshambles frontman's
London flat to arrest Doherty, according to Adam Ficek from the band.

The arrest is thought to relate to the
pictures of Pete, which appeared in The Sun earlier this week where he
allegedly injected a female fan with a drug. [... and will the wanker judge
let him out yet again? see full story for more]- Click
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CMJ reports: TW Walsh, formerly of Pedro The
Lion and Headphones, has announced the release of an EP, The Soft Drugs
In Moderation, June 6 on his own label, Tower Of Song. Seattleite Walsh
has recorded as a solo act before, releasing two records and an EP under
his own name between 1999 and 2002, but this will be his debut album under
the moniker the Soft Drugs.[see full story for more]-
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Blabbermouth reports: CANDLEMASS vocalist
Messiah Marcolin contacted BLABBERMOUTH.NET today (April 28) to reveal
that he has left the Swedish doomsters and that it's 100 percent definite
that he will not return. "We could not agree on how to do the new album,"
he said, but would not further elaborate on his sudden departure.[see full
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Blabbermouth reports: According to a posting
on the SLAYER fan site SlayerSaves.com, SLAYER have officially confirmed
that they will be playing two warm-up shows along with MASTODON and THINE
EYES BLEED prior to their Unholy Alliance Tour. The warm-up dates are as
follows:

Blabbermouth reports: BLABBERMOUTH.NET has
received more information about the upcoming VH1 "Behind the Music" special
on PANTERA, which has a premiere date of May 11. According to Dan Masek,
who worked on the program as a segment producer, the show will include
brand new interviews..."other musicians who were friends with PANTERA as
well as some people who were closely involved in the Alrosa Villa shooting.
The episode also features shocking video and police dispatch/911 calls
from the tragic night of the shooting." [there is even more, see full story
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Blabbermouth reports: KISS's official web
site has been updated with a new question-and-answer session with guitarist
Tommy Thayer.

Q: Some fans will never accept you wearing
Ace's makeup. What do you say to a fan who has that opinion?

Tommy: "If anybody else out there was asked
to play guitar in KISS and wear the Spaceman makeup, but out of respect
decided to decline the offer, I'd say you're the most dishonest person
that ever walked the earth."[see full story for the full Q&A]-
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Blabbermouth reports: PunkNews.org is reporting
that '90s punk/pop trio SUPERNOVA has found itself in a conflict with the
new the new band featuring former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted, ex-GUNS
N' ROSES guitarist Gilby Clarke and MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy
Lee. The original SUPERNOVA was formed in 1989 in Costa Mesa, California
and released their first record, "Ages Three and Up", on Atlantic followed
by dates on the Warped Tour in 1995 and 1999 and a tour with the BUZZCOCKS.
The band also recorded the famous track "Chewbacca" for Kevin Smith's "Clerks".
The band has run into conflict with a new "Rock Star" reality show project,
which will feature an unknown fronting a group backed by Lee, Newsted and
Clarke. According to the established SUPERNOVA, the major label, when confronted,
"flipped the real SUPERNOVA the royal corporate bird." [see full story
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Blabbermouth reports: According to a posting
on JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford's official web site, the singer's
catalog will be remastered and reissued with bonus material this summer.
The HALFORD band has issued two full-length studio albums — "Resurrection"
(2000) and "Crucible" (2002) — plus a live album, "Live Insurrection" (2001).[see
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TuneLab reports: The Lostprophets have announced
the addition of drummer Ilan Rubin (ex-Denver Harbor). Rubin replaces the
bands original drummer Mike Chiplin who left the band last year. The band
has also revealed the track listing for their new album 'Liberation Transmission'.
The disc is set for a June 27th release[see full story for more]-
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The PRP reports: Mellowdrone will be touring
throughout North America this summer, here's their newly announced dates:May 01st Sacramento, CA - Old Ironsides
(Feat. Lola Ray)May 03rd San Francisco, CA - Cafe Du Nord
(Feat. Lola Ray)June 06th Hollywood, CA - Troubadour (Feat.
Monsters Are Waiting)[see full story for more]- Click
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punkbands reports: According to MTV, Killswitch
Engage expect to begin writing new material for their next album in July.
The effort is tentatively due out in November through Roadrunner. Furthermore,
the band recently tracked a cover of Dio's "Holy Diver" for an upcoming
"Kerrang!"-backed compilation[should be fun(ny).. see full story for more]-
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